The provincial inquiry, led by commissioner Justice William Hourigan, was tasked with a mandate to investigate the commercial and technical circumstances that led to the Stage 1 breakdowns and derailments of the Confederation Line since its launch in September 2019.
The inquiry, which was called after two derailments on the line in six weeks in the summer of 2021, heard from 41 witnesses over 18 days of public testimony, including top city staff, former mayor Jim Watson, and the heads of the companies involved in building and maintaining the line and the train cars. The inquiry also had consultations with the public and received more than one million documents.
Several questions at the inquiry were about the final trial to prove the system was ready to launch. Testimony revealed that while the public was told that the system had to perform perfectly, it did not meet that goal in the summer of 2019 but launched anyway. Some of the high-profile figures involved in the launch of the system are gone. Jim Watson is no longer the mayor, John Manconi no longer heads OC Transpo, and Peter Lauch is out as the CEO of the Rideau Transit Group.
“The first phase of the O-Train's Confederation Line, which was more than a year late opening and has serious reliability issues that have left city officials and transit riders fuming, has won a prestigious award for excellence in engineering.”
Tax Payers always give more.
......Ottawa's version of the Olympic stadium fiasco for the next 30 years😢
Probably going to be a white screen and waste of time... Considering all the redactions historically to present OCtranspo not being forthright or forthcoming with respect to anything albeit cancellations, transparency is a second thought here always has been 'Public Inquiry' 😂😅
And then what....like everything else in trudeaus government....its an I'm soorry and that's that on to the next corruption
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Wonder if anything will be done about or will we just continue to use same company hood no one accountable and just spent this money doing report to appease the middle
Wonder why there is no mention of Larry O’brian in this whole thing?
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